Curtis Gedak has announced the release of a new stable build of GParted Live, a Debian-based live CD with a collection of software applications designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.22.0 which now supports reading and writing file systems to disk devices without partition tables, in addition to supporting GPT partition names. Items of note include: based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2015-03-23; now uses systemd which is the new default system init on Debian; includes GParted 0.22.0: adds read and write support for unpartitioned whole disk devices; adds read and write support for GPT partition names. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel graphics." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256) links: gparted-live-0.22.0-1-amd64.iso (227MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.22.0-1-i686-pae.iso (228MB), gparted-live-0.22.0-1-i586.iso (227MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of a new stable version of GParted Live, a Debian-based live CD featuring a range of software for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.21.0 which fixes an off-by-one sector error in GParted's internal block copy algorithm, and removes unnecessary duplicate actions when resizing a partition. Items of note include: based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2015-01-27; replaced i486 live image with i586; increased minimum requirements to 256 MB of RAM. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel graphics." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256) the live CD images for your preferred processor architecture from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.21.0-1-amd64.iso (223MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.21.0-1-i686-pae.iso (224MB), gparted-live-0.21.0-1-i586.iso (223MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of a new stable version of GParted Live, a Debian-based live CD containing a variety of disk partitioning and data rescue tools: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.20.0 which improves resizing for multi-device Btrfs file systems. Also included is a patched version of Parted 3.2 that fixes a crash that would occur when resizing fat16 file systems. Items of note include: based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2014-10-24; fixes bug 738258 - incorrect language title for locale pt_BR; fixes missing required syslinux-utils package; adds syslinux-efi package; improves descriptions and layout for exit dialog. This release has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics." The release announcement. Download (SHA256): gparted-live-0.20.0-2-amd64.iso (219MB, pkglist), gparted-live-0.20.0-2-i686-pae.iso (219MB), gparted-live-0.20.0-2-i486.iso (219MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.19.1-1, the latest stable release of the Debian-based live CD with specialist utilities designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.19.1 which includes a critical bug fix to prevent GParted from crashing and potentially losing data. Items of note include: based on the Debian's 'sid' repository as of 2014-07-16; updated Linux kernel to 3.14.12; updated syslinux to 6.03-pre18; includes GParted 0.19.1 which includes a bug fix to prevent a crash caused by a cross thread race condition. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256) from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.19.1-1-amd64.iso (194MB), gparted-live-0.19.1-1-i686-pae.iso (191MB), gparted-live-0.19.1-1-i486.iso (191MB, pkglist).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.19.0-1, a new stable build of the project's Debian-based live CD that features a number of utilities for disk management and data rescue work: "The GParted team is proud to announce the stable release of GParted Live 0.19.0-1. This live image includes fixes to improve booting on UEFI firmware computers and it has undergone extra testing to ensure it works with motherboard BIOS RAID. Items of note include: based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2014-06-11; updated Linux kernel to 3.14.5; updated Syslinux to 6.03-pre13; increased minimum requirements to 160 MB of RAM; CD/DVD tray is no longer ejected on shutdown or reboot; contains GParted 0.19.0 application which includes a refactored OperationDetail code to address random crash behaviour." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (SHA256): gparted-live-0.19.0-1-amd64.iso (186MB), gparted-live-0.19.0-1-i686-pae.iso (182MB), gparted-live-0.19.0-1-i486.iso (181MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.18.0-2, the latest stable version of the popular Debian-based live CD designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce another stable release of GParted Live. This live image fixes a bug with the SSH host key protocol ed25519 not being generated during boot. Other items of note include: based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2014-04-10; updated Linux kernel to version 3.13.7; updated GRUB to 2.02beta2. Added the following programs: screen - screen manager with terminal emulation; rsync - a fast and versatile file-copying tool; ping - check network connectivity to another host on a network; telnet - communicate with another host using the TELNET protocol; traceroute - print the route packets trace to network host...." The release announcement. Download (SHA256): gparted-live-0.18.0-2-amd64.iso (184MB), gparted-live-0.18.0-2-i686-pae.iso (179MB), gparted-live-0.18.0-2-i486.iso (179MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.18.0-1, an updated version of the Debian-based live CD with utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This live image contains GParted 0.18.0 which fixes a resize/move problem introduced in 0.16.2 that might set partition size smaller than ext2/3/4, NTFS, and ReiserFS file systems in certain situations. Other items of note include: based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2014-02-18; includes GParted 0.18.0. This version of GParted includes: prevent crash when creating new partition on disk with loop label; fix default partition table that can not handle larger than 2 terrabyte disks; add BitLocker disk encryption detection." Here is the brief release announcement. Download the live CD image from SourceForge (SHA256): gparted-live-0.18.0-1-amd64.iso (180MB), gparted-live-0.18.0-1-i686-pae.iso (176MB), gparted-live-0.18.0-1-i486.iso (175MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.17.0-1, a new version of the Debian-based live CD with tools for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release marks the first time that GParted can resize some file systems (Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, LVM2 pv, NILFS2, ReiserFS, and XFS) while these are online (mounted). This release also includes a number of bug fixes and language translation updates. Items of note include: based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2013-12-13; updated Linux kernel to 3.11.10. GParted 0.17.0 which includes: add support for online resize; recognize Linux swap suspend and software RAID partitions; fix busy detection for Linux software RAID and extended partitions; turn on resize2fs progress bar." The release announcement. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.17.0-1-amd64.iso (169MB), gparted-live-0.17.0-1-i686-pae.iso (168MB), gparted-live-0.17.0-1-i486.iso (167MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of an updated release of GParted Live, version 0.16.2-11, a Debian-based specialist live CD with utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce the availability of a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes a number of improvements over the previous stable release including: fix freeze/lock problem at boot menu experienced by some computers; fix wrong name for Czech locale; updated Linux kernel to 3.11.7; updated bootloader isolinux and syslinux to 6.02 with patches for local boot; built with live-build 3; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2013-11-13." Here is the brief release announcement. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.16.2-11-amd64.iso (167MB), gparted-live-0.16.2-11-i686-pae.iso (166MB), gparted-live-0.16.2-11-i486.iso (165MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the availability of a new stable version of GParted Live, a Debian-based live CD with specialist tools designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes a number of bug fixes and language translation updates. Items of note include: LVM partitions are not activated on boot to enable move or resize; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2013-09-19. Includes GParted 0.16.2 which includes: fix crash if apply clicked before pending operations completed; fix regression which broke Linux swap resize; fix to not hide the progress of the tools used, such as ntfsresize. Special thanks go to Steven Shiau and Mike Fleetwood for their efforts to ensure the stability of this release." Here is the brief release announcement. Download links (SHA256): gparted-live-0.16.2-1b-amd64.iso (160MB), gparted-live-0.16.2-1b-i686-pae.iso (159MB), gparted-live-0.16.2-1b-i486.iso (158MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live version 0.15.0-1, a utility live CD with specialist tools for hard disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. The biggest change with this release comes from enhancements to GParted that track live updates of command execution progress in the details section of the apply operations window. Other items of note include: move operations are twice as fast as in prior versions; proper cancel support has been added; volume label length is now based on file system type; unallocated space is selected by default; Linux kernel updated to 3.2.39; based on the Debian Sid repository as of 2013-03-20." Visit the project's news page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): gparted-live-0.15.0-1-amd64.iso (134MB), gparted-live-0.15.0-1-i686-pae.iso (133MB), gparted-live-0.15.0-1-i486.iso (133MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live version 0.14.1-6, a new version of the specialist Debian-based live CD designed for data rescue and disk partitioning tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. The big news with this release is the added ability to boot the live image on UEFI firmware computers, while maintaining boot ability on traditional PC/BIOS computers. This means that GParted Live can now boot on newer Windows 8 computers. In addition to supporting UEFI firmware, two more GNU/Linux operating system images have been released: i686-PAE (Physical Address Extension) and AMD64 (x86_64). These new images permit addressing more than 4 gigabytes of RAM, and enable using multiple processor cores. Other items of note include: updated Linux kernel to 3.2.35-2; based on the Debian 'sid' repository as of 2012-12-23." Visit the project's news page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): gparted-live-0.14.1-6-i486.iso (133MB), gparted-live-0.14.1-6-amd64.iso (134MB).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.14.1-1, a bug-fix update of the project's utility live CD containing tools for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce the stable release of GParted Live 0.14.1-1. This is a maintenance release that includes important bug fixes and it also adds more language translation updates. Two important bugs fixed in this release are: fix Linux software RAID device detection; fix logical partition grow overlaps extended partition end. The GParted Live 0.14.1-1 image is based on the Debian 'sid' repository as of 2012-12-13." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement and which also contains a link to the GParted 0.14.1 release notes. Download the live CD image from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.14.1-1.iso (127MB, MD5).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.14.0-1, a new stable version of the project's utility live CD containing tools for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. The big news with this release is the added ability to move, resize, check, create, and delete physical volumes under Logical Volume Management - LVM2 PV. This major addition to GParted 0.14.0 is thanks to work by Mike Fleetwood. Other bugs fixed in this release include: fix crash when ESCape key pressed in dialogs containing number entry spin buttons; fix mounted file system size and usage determination for ext2/3/4; Fix ReiserFS UUID reading issues on Fedora and CentOS. The GParted Live 0.14.0-1 image is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2012-10-11." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download: gparted-live-0.14.0-1.iso (127MB, MD5).

Steven Shiau has released a new version of GParted Live, a live CD based on the Debian unstable release with graphical tools for disk management and data recovery. From the changelog and the release announcement: "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian sid repository (as of 2012/Jul/14). The most significant enhancement is with GParted 0.13.0, which now shows when there is a difference between the file system size and the partition size. Thanks to work by Mike Fleetwood this resolves bug #499202 that has been open since 2007. With this new feature, users can learn if there is unallocated space within a partition that can then be put to good use. Another important application change is a fix for bug #678831 which resolves a problem with overlapping partitions when resizing an extended partition. Also new in this release: adds web browser icon to desktop; adds menu button keyboard shortcut to bring up Fluxbox root menu (bug #578842); useful when using GParted Live without a mouse; updates Linux kernel to 3.2.21-3." Download: gparted-live-0.13.0-1.iso (124MB, MD5).

Steven Shiau has released a new version of GParted Live, a specialist utility live CD, based on Debian GNU/Linux, with graphical tools for disk management and data recovery tasks. Version 0.11.0-2 comes with updated GParted, the latest Linux kernel, GRUB 2, Dillo 3.0.2 as a simple and lightweight web browser, and the usual round of package updates from Debian's "testing" branch. From the changelog: "This is GParted Live 0.11.0-2. New in this release: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2011-12-14; new GParted release 0.11.0; Linux kernel has been updated to 3.1.5-1; program NTFS-3G has been updated to 2011.10.9AR; GRUB 2 instead of GRUB 1 is included in the release since most of the modern distributions use GRUB 2 already." Download the live CD image from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.11.0-2.iso (114MB, MD5).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of GParted LiveCD 0.10.0-3, a new stable version of the useful utility live CD containing a collection of utilities designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. This release comes with the much-improved GParted 0.10.0 while the Fluxbox window manager has been upgraded to version 1.3.2. From the release announcement: "GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted LiveCD, version 0.10.0-3. This release includes the new GParted 0.10.0 application which adds Btrfs resizing, exfat detection, and the intelligence to merge overlapping operations. The deprecated 'info' icon is removed and the underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2011-11-02." Visit the project's news page to read the brief information summary about the new version. Download the live CD image from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.10.0-3.iso (110MB, MD5).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of GParted LiveCD 0.9.0-6, a new stable version of the useful utility live CD designed for data rescue and disk partitioning tasks. This release includes the new GParted 0.9.0 and the CD image is now compressed with xz instead of gzip. From the release notes: "This is GParted Live 0.9.0-6. New in this release: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository (as of 2011-07-23); new GParted 0.9.0; Parted was rolled back to 0.2.3-7 with the patch file fix-head-size-assertion.patch from Ubuntu; Linux kernel 2.6.39-3 is used; xz compression instead of gzip method was used when making Squashfs and initrd, therefore the GParted Live ISO image and ZIP file are smaller by about 24 MB." Download the live CD image from here: gparted-live-0.9.0-6.iso (104MB, MD5).

Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 0.8.1-3, a new stable version of the Debian-based live CD designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: "The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live (0.8.1-3). This release fixes problems with safe graphics settings mode and fail-safe mode if KMS is on. The PartImage package has also been fixed. This release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of May 24, 2011 (Linux kernel 2.6.38-5). The new GParted 0.8.1 further improves motherboard BIOS RAID support. To avoid partition entry duplicates, all usage of kpartx has been removed. Also partitions with volume labels containing an apostrophe can now be unmounted." Visit the project's news page to read the brief release announcement; the release notes for the new GParted 0.8.1 can be found here. Download (MD5): gparted-live-0.8.1-3.iso (127MB).

Steven Shiau has released a new stable version of GParted Live, a Debian-based live utility CD designed primarily for disk partitioning task, with some data rescue tools added into the mix. From the release notes: "This is GParted Live 0.8.0-5. New in this release: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository (as of 2011-03-21); the Linux kernel has been updated to 2.6.38; package OpenSSH was added in this release, by default the SSH service is not started, and if you want to start it, make sure you have change the password and the file /etc/hosts.deny; bug fixed - a workaround was added to make setxkbmap work.". See also the changelog for a complete release history. Download the live CD image from here: gparted-live-0.8.0-5.iso (124MB, MD5). As always, don't forget to back up all your important data before employing a tool that modifies your disk partition layout.

A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a Debian-based specialist distribution with a collection of hard disk management utilities, has been released. What's new? "This release is a bug-fix release with some minor updates; based on Debian 'Lenny' on 2008-11-27, Linux kernel 2.6.26; a program called MC_HxEd was added; package cryptsetup was added; instead of entering X window automatically, we can choose to configure xorg.conf first; new mechanism to start GParted LiveCD; two more boot parameters gl_numlk and gl_capslk were added to control numlock and scrlock; ifupdown and dhcp3-client were added; bug fixed - PartImage was missing." See the release notes for more details. At the same time, the project has also announced a new testing release of GParted LiveCD 0.4.0-1, with the newly released GParted 0.4.0 and Linux kernel 2.6.26. Download the CD images from here: gparted-live-0.3.9-13.iso (94.9MB), gparted-live-0.4.0-1.iso (94.9MB).

A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a specialist, Debian-based live medium featuring a popular hard disk partitioning tool, has been released. From the release notes: "Comes with GParted 0.3.9; based on Debian 'Lenny' as of 2008-10-01; Linux kernel 2.6.26; package hfsprogs was added; three boot parameters were added: gl_lang, gl_kbd, and gl_batch (example: 'gl_lang=en_US gl_kbd=NONE gl_batch' will use en_US.UTF-8 locale, will do nothing about keyboard mapping change and will not wait for entering key before starting X); VGA 1024x768 is used for framebuffer when booting; the icon of USB on desktop was removed since it does not fit the way USB Flash drive was made; updated with newer live-initramfs 1.139.1." Download from here: gparted-live-0.3.9-4.iso (93.8MB, MD5).

GParted LiveCD has been updated to version 0.3.4-6: "GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-6 has been released. Changes: we now use Squashfs LZMA witch allows best compression and reduces the file size to 45 MB; upgrade to X.Org 7.2 offers better support and auto-detection for video and resolution, but old mkxf86config is still available as an option in GRUB, if needed; the new 'Macbook' option fixes the double keystroke issue with Mac; two new scripts are born to help users to build GParted LiveUSB - first one can be used to mount a USB key and also offers the possibility to run the second one, which copies needed files to the freshly attached USB stick and apply syslinux to make it bootable; kernel has been updated to 2.6.20.6." Read the rest of the changelog for further details. Download: gparted-livecd-0.3.4-6.iso (45.0MB, MD5).

A new stable version of GParted LiveCD has been released: "We are happy to announce that GParted LiveCD 0.3.3-7 has been released. Based on Gentoo Catalyst, it is now running Fluxbox. Many video drivers have been added so it should work on most x86 computers. We tried to make it as useful as possible so it can be run under VMware and VirtualBox. Changes: hang at shutdown has been fixed by coming back to old version of baselayout; VirtualBox can now boot the ISO, if typing at prompt VESA, which will force VESA driver to be set in xorg.conf; some icons have been added." Here is the full release announcement. Download: gparted-livecd-0.3.3-7.iso (48.8MB, MD5).

An updated version of GParted LiveCD has been released. From the release notes: "This version has some minor improvements. Nothing I can say here can top full move support in GParted, so I won't bore you with too many details. The coolest things are the new artwork by Junel Mujar and it's now possible to boot from a hard drive. The hw_random crash has also been fixed." Among the included packages, the Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 2.6.17.11, GParted to 0.3, and Thunar to 0.4.0rc1. The new version can be downloaded from here: gparted-livecd-0.3-1.iso (28.5MB, MD5).

An updated version of GParted LiveCD is now available: "Minor update to fix some problems in the new video card detection. Some cards were given the wrong driver and starting X was not possible without manually editing the xorg.conf file. If X fails to start use the 'manual video card' option in the boot menu. This reverts the system back to the behavior of 0.2.5-3 for video card selecting. I added a screen shot program for reporting bugs. The 'Boot failure: Unknown keyword in config file' is fixed." Here are the complete release notes. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5-5.iso (27.9MB, MD5).

A new, bug-fix update of GParted LiveCD has been released: "This a big bug-fix release that comes with some other minor new goodies. Video cards are now auto-detected, please file a bug if a problem is found. A boot menu was added that allows you to load modules, access a bash shell, and load the CDROM into memory to free the CDROM drive. This boot menu was a lot of work, I hope you like it." Read the complete changelog for more information. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5-4.iso (27.8MB, MD5).

Patrick Verner has announced the release of a new version of GParted LiveCD. What's new? "I added some goodies people have been asking for: Partimage, GRUB, rsync, fdisk, cfdisk, and sfdisk. Links has also been included to view LarryT's documentation while running the live CD and live USB. Some other stuff was upgraded like adding a shutdown menu and the entire layout of the root file system. The entire root file system is compressed with SquashFS and the boot process has been vastly changed. This saved almost 5 MB to add extras. The kernel was also updated to Linux 2.6.17.4." Here is the full release announcement with changelog. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5-3.iso (28.4MB, MD5).

Patrick Verner has announced the availability of an updated version of GParted LiveCD: "GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1. I think this might be the best version of the live CD released so far. Many issues have been fixed and I spent some time making it look better. Junel Mujar made a very cool wallpaper for the desktop. Changes: updated to Linux kernel 2.6.16.20, Parted 1.7.1, e2fsprogs 1.39, GTK+ 2.8.19, Fluxbox 1.0rc, udev 094; Added xfce4-panel 4.3.90.1 to Fluxbox, Thunar 0.3.0beta1; rebuilt X.Org to be smaller; the source for the CD is located in /usr/src/." Read the rest of the changelog for further information. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5-1.iso (29.4MB, MD5).

GParted LiveCD has been updated to version 0.2.5. What's new? "Added support for shrinking HFS and HFS+ file systems; added support for copying HFS+ and Reiser4 file systems; renamed menu item 'filesystems' to 'Features' to avoid future confusion; only allow growing of a copy if there is grow support for the copied file system; creating a new partition on a BSD partition table failed, causing a segmentation fault when setting the partition type - fixed." Read the rest of the changelog for more information. Download: gparted-livecd-0.2.5.iso (31.4MB).

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